{"id":21565,"date":"2026-02-20T18:28:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T18:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21565"},"modified":"2026-02-20T18:28:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T18:28:23","slug":"former-cia-officer-says-iran-can-sink-a-u-s-carrier-is-he-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21565","title":{"rendered":"Former CIA Officer Says Iran Can Sink a U.S. Carrier \u2014 Is He Right?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Iran could hit a US carrier with a hypersonic missile, but hitting a moving carrier and not getting shot down while the missile itself it moving and partially blinded by the plasma created by its extreme speeds&#8230;is very difficult, and it&#8217;s not clear how many of these missiles Iran has, or if they work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Former CIA Officer Says Iran Can Sink a U.S. Carrier \u2014 Is He Right?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dcCqcSrIn9g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran could hit a US carrier with a hypersonic missile, but hitting a moving carrier and not getting shot down while the missile itself it moving and partially blinded by the plasma created by its extreme speeds&#8230;is very difficult, and it&#8217;s not clear how many of these missiles Iran has, or if they work. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dcCqcSrIn9g<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1673,474,552,156,391,259,338,1056,1057,619,158,1055],"class_list":["post-21565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-aircraft-carrier","tag-cia","tag-conflict","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-military","tag-missiles","tag-navy","tag-ships","tag-united-states","tag-war","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21566,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21565\/revisions\/21566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}